In re Parole

Umsted, Special Deputy Attorney General,

This department is in receipt of your communication requesting advice concerning the following subjects:

I. Does the Pennsylvania Board of Parole have jurisdiction over minors under 18 years of age, serving sentences at the male industrial schools at Huntingdon and White Hill, and the Industrial Home for Women at Muncy?

II. Where a prisoner, undergoing a general sentence at a male industrial school, or the industrial home for women, has been paroled, may he or she be granted a final discharge from parole before the expiration of the period which the…